Flanders / Flandres / Flandriae. (Untitled). [From upper right on map: Habes hic Novam et accuratissimam descriptionem tractus illius Flandriae per que Superioribus ....].

[Amsterdam, c.1622]. [Possibly Mercator-Hondius, 1628]. A copper engraved map on laid paper, uncoloured. Script/text in upper right cartouche/panel: Habes hic Novam et accuratissimam descriptionem tractus illius Flandriae per que Superioribus hisce annis anno Scilicet Christi 1600 et Sequentibus atq. imprimis anno 1604 et hoc 1605.... Imprint at lower right: Petrus Kaerius coelavit. Plate size is 51.5cm x 37cm, on a sheet measuring 55.5cm x 47cm. Small yellowed tape remains on verso at bottom of fold, some splitting along lower fold, a clean very good copy. Text on verso is in French, the headings: La partie de Flandres plus Orientale and LA PARTIE DE FLANDRES / PLUS ORIENTALE. Page numbers on verso are 183/184. Signature mark is Eeee. Probably from a French edition of Van Den Keere's Germania Inferior [orig. 1617]; The French title: La Germanie inférieure de Petrus Keerius : c'est à dire: Nouvelles et exactes cartes géographiques des XVII provinces dicelle [1622]. However, the page numbers on the verso of the 1622 edition map are 40/41,the signature mark is Q, and the layout of the heading on pg. 183 is different. This map may be from a different French printing of Van Den Keere, or possibly from a French edition of the Mercator-Hondius Atlas [1628?]. A copy of this map is visible on the Catawiki site, from the 1628 Mercator-Hondius Atlas, with verso page numbers of 369/372, and a signature mark Aaaaa. Stanford Libraries shows an image of this map with Latin text, "From Hondius' Mercator-Hondius atlas,1606". A complex publishing history